Why do European efforts to create an independent security force ...

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Why do European efforts to create an independent security force not threaten the maintenance of the Community, in Jervis's view?
 
  a. The purpose of the European force is not to fight the United States.
  b. The Europeans are insufficiently coherent as a bloc to create a functional security force.
  c. The United States will be an active participant in the command structure of the new European force.
  d. No European force will ever be powerful enough to challenge the military power of the United States.
  e. European countries will never be willing to pay the costs necessary to create a security force that can challenge the United States.

Question 2

As explained by Art, what historically has more often than not been the result of the rise of one great power at the expense of the dominant one?
 
  a. a war between them that has dragged in other great powers
  b. conflictual relations between the two powers but ultimate avoidance of violent conflict
  c. the peaceful economic transition of the hegemony of the dominant power to the other
  d. a limited war between them that is destructive to both but that fails to draw in other powers
  e. the rise to dominance of a third power that benefits from the loss of resources of the formerly dominant powers

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: a

Answer to Question 2

Answer: a

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